Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 18 20
Rank change year-on-year -25 +2 -12
Permanent jobs citing Python 182 353 303
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.55% 9.98% 9.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.85% 29.05% 24.14%
Number of salaries quoted 101 185 198
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,900 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,598
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £110,500 £89,125
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 590 1,215 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.76% 34.35% 38.34%
Number of salaries quoted 430 725 926
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £36,625
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.53% -8.25%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,625 £90,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -29 88 £46,000 -34.29% 336
Buckinghamshire -10 48 £58,000 - 89
Oxfordshire -10 46 £67,500 +2.44% 114
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.55%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.55%) Kinematics
2 1 (0.55%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (13.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.30%) MadCap Flare
3 3 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (35.71%) Azure
2 56 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 49 (26.92%) AWS
4 33 (18.13%) GCP
5 18 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (9.34%) Serverless
7 16 (8.79%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (8.79%) GitHub
8 15 (8.24%) Azure AI
9 14 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (3.85%) dbt
13 6 (3.30%) Google Analytics
13 6 (3.30%) Google Docs
13 6 (3.30%) SaaS
13 6 (3.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (3.30%) Snowflake
14 5 (2.75%) Azure Machine Learning
14 5 (2.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.30%) DNS
1 6 (3.30%) Firewall
1 6 (3.30%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.20%) Wireless
3 3 (1.65%) Internet
3 3 (1.65%) MQTT
4 2 (1.10%) 5G
5 1 (0.55%) 4G
5 1 (0.55%) DHCP
5 1 (0.55%) HTTP
5 1 (0.55%) Intranet
5 1 (0.55%) MIMO
5 1 (0.55%) Modbus
5 1 (0.55%) NGN
5 1 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.55%) SpaceWire
5 1 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (25.82%) Power BI
2 27 (14.84%) Tableau
3 24 (13.19%) BigQuery
4 22 (12.09%) Relational Database
5 16 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (7.14%) RDBMS
7 10 (5.49%) Metadata
8 6 (3.30%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.75%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.65%) Data Hub
10 3 (1.65%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.65%) Looker
10 3 (1.65%) MySQL
11 2 (1.10%) Airbyte
11 2 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (1.10%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (12.64%) Git
2 21 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.14%) JMeter
3 13 (7.14%) JUnit
3 13 (7.14%) Mockito
4 7 (3.85%) MLflow
5 6 (3.30%) JIRA
6 5 (2.75%) GitLab
6 5 (2.75%) Selenium
7 4 (2.20%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.20%) Postman
7 4 (2.20%) SoapUI
8 3 (1.65%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.65%) Metasploit
9 2 (1.10%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.55%) Appium
10 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.55%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.55%) LabVIEW
General
1 65 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.03%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (15.93%) Law
4 24 (13.19%) Finance
5 23 (12.64%) Marketing
6 18 (9.89%) Public Sector
7 15 (8.24%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.75%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.65%) Retail
10 2 (1.10%) Automotive
10 2 (1.10%) Aviation
10 2 (1.10%) Banking
10 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.10%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.55%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (19.23%) Analyst
2 34 (18.68%) Developer
3 28 (15.38%) Senior
4 24 (13.19%) Architect
5 21 (11.54%) Data Analyst
6 20 (10.99%) Cloud Architect
6 20 (10.99%) GCP Architect
6 20 (10.99%) Platform Architect
7 16 (8.79%) Junior
8 15 (8.24%) Java Developer
8 15 (8.24%) Junior Analyst
8 15 (8.24%) Junior Data Analyst
9 14 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 13 (7.14%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 13 (7.14%) Software Engineer
11 9 (4.95%) Data Engineer
11 9 (4.95%) Lead
12 8 (4.40%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 6 (3.30%) Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (14.84%) REST
2 15 (8.24%) HTML
2 15 (8.24%) Spring
2 15 (8.24%) Spring Boot
3 14 (7.69%) JSON
3 14 (7.69%) SOAP
3 14 (7.69%) Web Services
3 14 (7.69%) XML
4 13 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
4 13 (7.14%) Apache Camel
4 13 (7.14%) Hibernate
4 13 (7.14%) jQuery
4 13 (7.14%) WireMock
5 11 (6.04%) .NET
6 10 (5.49%) Middleware
7 6 (3.30%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (3.30%) scikit-learn
7 6 (3.30%) Visualforce
8 5 (2.75%) PyTorch
9 4 (2.20%) React
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.74%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.04%) Life Science
4 8 (4.40%) Low-Code
5 6 (3.30%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.20%) Industry 4.0
7 4 (2.20%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 4 (2.20%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.20%) SCADA
8 3 (1.65%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.65%) Animation
8 3 (1.65%) LIMS
9 2 (1.10%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.55%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.55%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.55%) PCIe
10 1 (0.55%) Replication
10 1 (0.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.74%) Linux
2 10 (5.49%) Unix
3 7 (3.85%) Windows
4 3 (1.65%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.55%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.55%) VxWorks
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (30.77%) Analytics
1 56 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 52 (28.57%) Agile
3 48 (26.37%) Business Intelligence
4 39 (21.43%) AI
5 37 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (19.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (18.13%) Data Science
7 33 (18.13%) Roadmaps
8 32 (17.58%) Mentoring
9 30 (16.48%) DevOps
10 29 (15.93%) ETL
11 28 (15.38%) Strategic Roadmap
12 26 (14.29%) Computer Science
13 25 (13.74%) Cloud Security
13 25 (13.74%) Decision-Making
13 25 (13.74%) Machine Learning
13 25 (13.74%) Software Engineering
14 24 (13.19%) Cost Optimisation
14 24 (13.19%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 72 (39.56%) SQL
2 50 (27.47%) Java
3 39 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 26 (14.29%) Go
5 17 (9.34%) C++
6 16 (8.79%) Shell Script
7 14 (7.69%) Bash
7 14 (7.69%) C#
8 10 (5.49%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (3.30%) Apex Code
10 6 (3.30%) C
11 5 (2.75%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (2.75%) TypeScript
12 4 (2.20%) Fortran
12 4 (2.20%) PHP
12 4 (2.20%) R
13 3 (1.65%) MATLAB
13 3 (1.65%) VBA
14 2 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (21.43%) Degree
2 26 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 19 (10.44%) Azure Certification
4 18 (9.89%) Master's Degree
5 10 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.95%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.85%) PhD
8 3 (1.65%) ACCA
8 3 (1.65%) CIMA
8 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.65%) OSCP
9 2 (1.10%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.55%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.55%) GPEN
10 1 (0.55%) MCSE
10 1 (0.55%) RHCE
10 1 (0.55%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.34%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.04%) QA
3 4 (2.20%) GDPR
4 3 (1.65%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 3 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.65%) ECSS
4 3 (1.65%) GxP
4 3 (1.65%) NIST
5 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 29 (15.93%) Docker
2 2 (1.10%) vCloud
2 2 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (27.47%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.69%) Kibana
3 12 (6.59%) Terraform
4 9 (4.95%) Ansible
5 4 (2.20%) Kubeflow
6 3 (1.65%) Argo
6 3 (1.65%) Nmap
7 2 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.10%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.55%) Control-M
8 1 (0.55%) Grafana
8 1 (0.55%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.55%) SCCM
8 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.55%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (16.48%) Google
2 24 (13.19%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.69%) Dynatrace
4 13 (7.14%) Splunk
5 10 (5.49%) Databricks
6 8 (4.40%) Salesforce
7 6 (3.30%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.20%) Allen-Bradley
8 4 (2.20%) SAP
8 4 (2.20%) Siemens
8 4 (2.20%) VMware
9 3 (1.65%) Agilent
9 3 (1.65%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.65%) Talend
10 2 (1.10%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.10%) Cognos
10 2 (1.10%) HubSpot
10 2 (1.10%) IBM
10 2 (1.10%) Informatica
10 2 (1.10%) Zoho